Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun prp] or [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield .
2 She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ?
3 They reckon that Andropulos — if it was Andropulos , it could have been Alexander or Aristotle — made an amateurish blunder .
4 The Domesday Survey records a mill at Hucclecote which would have been Pitts or Ptymilne Mill .
5 So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished .
6 They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did .
7 The prosecution say the robber was disguised by a crash helmet , it had been Bryant or Cunnliffe and the other had driven the getaway car .
8 There have been June or July records annually since 1960 , except in 1971 , 1972 and 1975 , and up to 27 birds have been seen together , although smaller numbers are much more usual .
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